I love the short ending of Mark. To end a gospel with “for they were afraid” is brilliant, to end this gospel like that is nothing short of genius. Add to the pleasure of real richly provocative composition the ending seems to focus on the theme of the “fear of God” – hardly a popular topic today ;)

I really enjoyed myself, but what do you think?

And before ex-Carey students complain, I admit, I broke my own advice and did not offer concrete local real application, but stopped with vague and general “theology” :( Maybe if this was a series on Mark 16 (in the best edition of Mark) then I’d have managed that too ;)